Extension to tier point collection year end?
Aug 27, 2020, 5:51 am
#1
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Extension to tier point collection year end?
Hi all! I know that in the past it was never possible to extend the tier point collection year with BA. I was wondering if anyone has succeeded in doing that in these times?
Under the reduced requirements, I need 500 TPs to reach Gold by November, and was considering doing some TP runs but it would just be a pain. I wouldn't have minded just paying the fare and not flying, but to collect TPs you need to actually have flown. So, has anyone had any luck in extending their collection year?
Under the reduced requirements, I need 500 TPs to reach Gold by November, and was considering doing some TP runs but it would just be a pain. I wouldn't have minded just paying the fare and not flying, but to collect TPs you need to actually have flown. So, has anyone had any luck in extending their collection year?
Aug 27, 2020, 5:59 am
#3
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Aug 27, 2020, 4:26 pm
#4
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Thanks KARFA, I did not know that two week extensions are available, though I was hoping for more along the lines of a month. Is getting the two week extension a simple matter of calling them up?
Aug 27, 2020, 6:30 pm
#5
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The Tier Point collection period isn't extended, technically. What happens is that.for flights completed in the 2 weeks following your membership anniversary (presumably 8th November in this instance), you can phone up afterwards and ask for the points to be credited to your old year that just expired
Aug 29, 2020, 9:00 am
#6
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GXWBA With an already sizeable reduction in required TP's the reasoning for wanting another month just because "it'd just be a pain" is likely to fast fall on deaf ears. In fact any request for more than the 2 weeks adjustment ( crediting to previous year to meet requalification) generally falls on deaf ears for substantially better reasons like 'my mother/ father died' and that's when you haven't already been afforded a reduction in what needs to be earned and the entire industry isn't in meltdown.
I'd suggest either earning the lower amount within the time or accepting your drop. There are still a few 160 SH locations you can fly to to help make it less of a pain.
I'd suggest either earning the lower amount within the time or accepting your drop. There are still a few 160 SH locations you can fly to to help make it less of a pain.
Aug 29, 2020, 3:31 pm
#8
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And to add that things like positioning to Jersey and then flying from Jersey to a 80TP location is Potentially easier with all flights going to/from LHR (so an 80TP destination can easily be made into a trip for 320TPs with positioning. Adding in another trip to a 40 destination with prepositionjng, which could be UK domestic so low risk for quarantine too and ending in London would give you the remainder an additional 20 TPs. Obviously lots of other combinations available, so hopefully you will find something that isn’t too much of a pain over the next 10 weeks. It is worth noting that JER is generally getting a POuG if £59 per leg at the moment for your prepositioning flights.
Aug 30, 2020, 4:31 am
#9
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I don’t as of right now believe the reduced thresholds are adequate at all.
on the assumption normality returned last month the reduction would have been acceptable. As it stands my 500tp per month trajectory from the start of the year (Nov end) to get CCR with US travel is unachievable. And given travel isn’t really going to be advised until the new year that means we had 3 months of regular travel this year, yet the reduction is on the polar opposite assuming 3 months(25%) of the 12 were not flyable.
strictly speaking, the reduction at this point should be 50% at least.
on the assumption normality returned last month the reduction would have been acceptable. As it stands my 500tp per month trajectory from the start of the year (Nov end) to get CCR with US travel is unachievable. And given travel isn’t really going to be advised until the new year that means we had 3 months of regular travel this year, yet the reduction is on the polar opposite assuming 3 months(25%) of the 12 were not flyable.
strictly speaking, the reduction at this point should be 50% at least.
Aug 30, 2020, 12:28 pm
#10
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I completely agree. With the exception of those gaining their status through leisure travel, it is impossible for business travellers to achieve status now. I suspect that's the exact opposite of what BA really wants or needs in the long term. Hopefully they are considering suggestions such as yours behind the scenes. It will be interesting to see what happens to brand loyalty once employers finally give the go ahead for a return to normal business travel if not.
Aug 30, 2020, 12:39 pm
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I completely agree. With the exception of those gaining their status through leisure travel, it is impossible for business travellers to achieve status now. I suspect that's the exact opposite of what BA really wants or needs in the long term. Hopefully they are considering suggestions such as yours behind the scenes. It will be interesting to see what happens to brand loyalty once employers finally give the go ahead for a return to normal business travel if not.
It's hardly a priority to worry about any kind of traveller who was never loyal before, but might possibly have decided to become so during 2020.
Aug 30, 2020, 1:16 pm
#12
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Hi all! I know that in the past it was never possible to extend the tier point collection year with BA. I was wondering if anyone has succeeded in doing that in these times?
Under the reduced requirements, I need 500 TPs to reach Gold by November, and was considering doing some TP runs but it would just be a pain. I wouldn't have minded just paying the fare and not flying, but to collect TPs you need to actually have flown. So, has anyone had any luck in extending their collection year?
Under the reduced requirements, I need 500 TPs to reach Gold by November, and was considering doing some TP runs but it would just be a pain. I wouldn't have minded just paying the fare and not flying, but to collect TPs you need to actually have flown. So, has anyone had any luck in extending their collection year?
you are not much over half way there and you want an extra month to get a status which is already reduced, because it’s a “pain”
are you wanting Gold for the sake of it, you don’t sound like a frequent flyer?
Aug 31, 2020, 7:46 am
#13
Join Date: Mar 2018
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In the current pandemic, I wouldn't blame anyone for taking the view of GXWBA about the prospect of taking unnecessary flights. I suspect most people who've missed Gold due to the pandemic would be best advised to apply for the TAP status match (BAEC Silver gets you Star Alliance Gold), but I agree that it would have been nice to have just stuck with BA. Maybe there is still a chance that following the suggestion of GXWBA will stop that, although craigthemif has a good point that maybe they won't be worried as the majority will already be covered by the one year extension.